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Google says it needs until Friday to come up with a new proposal that would give it the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books.
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The new timetable approved Monday by a federal judge is the latest twist in a 4-year-old copyright lawsuit over Google's ambitious book-scanning project.
Google [GOOG
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] thought it had settled the dispute with U.S. authors and publishers more than a year ago.
But the agreement still hasn't won court approval because of concerns that the deal would give Google too much control over the digital book market.
When U.S. antitrust regulators raised objections to the agreement in September, Google decided to redo the deal. The revisions were supposed to be filed by the end of Monday -- before Google received the extension.
The U.S. Department of Justice had indicated in a court filing that there was a significant potential that the deal as written would not pass antitrust muster.
The settlement is an effort to resolve a 2005 lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild and others against Google's effort to scan libraries full of books. In that suit, authors and publishers had accused Google of copyright infringement.
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